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   The Man Who Would Be King by TheSleepingKnight

   Fandoms: Elden Ring (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/F, F/M, Gen
   • Work in Progress

   14 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Melina/Tarnished (Elden Ring)
   • Cleanrot Knight Finlay/Malenia Blade of Miquella (Elden Ring)
   • Blaidd the Half-Wolf & Tarnished (Elden Ring)
   • Merchant Kalé & Tarnished (Elden Ring)
   • Nepheli Loux & Tarnished
   • Tarnished & Torrent the Spirit Steed (Elden Ring)
   • Tarnished (Elden Ring)
   • Melina (Elden Ring)
   • Blaidd the Half-Wolf (Elden Ring)
   • Merchant Kalé (Elden Ring)
   • Ranni the Witch (Elden Ring)
   • Torrent the Spirit Steed (Elden Ring)
   • Iron Fist Alexander (Elden Ring)
   • Roderika (Elden Ring)
   • Nepheli Loux
   • oc fic
   • Male Tarnished (Elden Ring)
   • Named Tarnished (Elden Ring)
   • Blaidd and Kalé are best friends
   • Melina gets more screentime
   • Abusive Parents
   • Fantastic Racism
   • Killing Bigots: The Elden Ring Fic

   Summary

   A former servant of the Haligtree awakens to find he's been called back to life to continue the war of the Shattering- but Marika's design must be flawed, for he possesses a most unsuitable trait for a would-be Elden Lord:

   A kind heart.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   24,245

   Chapters:

   5/?

   Comments:

   45

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   Bookmarked by ZafireT7S

   08 Jul 2024